Game 1 Box Score: Phillies 5, Cubs 4 Game 2 Box Score: Cubs 3, Phillies 2 Game 3 Box Score: Cubs 8, Phillies 4 Game 4 Box Score: Phillies 9, Cubs 7 The Cubs should have won on Monday, but didn’t. The Phillies should have won on Tuesday, but didn’t. And each scored over eight […]

If you follow me, you know I had a good chuckle at the mass self-defenestrations going on around town when the Cubs started out 2-7. It amounted to not much more than a bad week, and every team has a bad week in baseball. In fact, they have more than a bad week. You’ll recall […]

Game 1 Box Score: Brewers 7, Cubs 0 Game 2 Box Score: Cubs 2, Brewers 1 Game 3 Box Score: Cubs 4, Brewers 1 There are no statement games in May. There are no statement games at all, really. And if the Cubs hadn’t won this series, they still would have flown out winning 11 […]

Game 1 Box Score: Marlins 6, Cubs 5 Game 2 Box Score: Cubs 5, Marlins 2 Game 3 Box Score: Cubs 3, Marlins 2 (11) Game 4 Box Score: Cubs 4, Marlins 1 If I were truly miserable and wanting to pawn that off on the rest of the world to dissipate my pain, I […]

Game 1 Box Score: Cubs 6, Mariners 5 Game 2 Box Score: Cubs 11, Mariners 0 The thing is I like Pearl Jam. It’s like this.. They’re fine. And I get that Eddie Vedder has nominated himself the #1 Cubs fan forever, even though he doesn’t know who Steely Dan is according to his own […]

A series win. A very good start. These things were late to the party for the Cubs this season, but they’re here now. And while most of Cubdom seems intent on bending and turning and balancing to tear down the wins, the Cubs put up 10 runs on a very good starter in Jameson Taillon, […]